How to Manage Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Serious Illness
CAPC
MAY 10, 2024
A leading psychiatrist shares how to identify and address anxiety and depression in people living with serious illness, and when to refer to a specialist.
Having hypermobile joints can increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adolescents
MQ Mental Health
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A link has been found between joint hypermobility and the emergence of depression and anxiety in adolescence, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom (BSMS) published in the BMJ Open. They then used statistical tests to assess the link between joint hypermobility and depression and anxiety.
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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.
Society of Clinical Psychology
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al., As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al., Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Rickerby, N.,
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With Anxiety, It’s Always Something
My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 11, 2022
While I’ve improved how I manage anxiety over the years, there are plenty of ways my anxiety manifests that I’ve never been able to get a handle on. No matter how much I try to manage anxiety in every possible area of my life, there always seems to be something that makes me anxious. The Mayo Clinic.
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GALENOS: A new resource to progress research into treatments for anxiety, depression, and psychosis
MQ Mental Health
JUNE 14, 2023
Today an article in the British Medical Journal has announced that a group of global experts are working on a new resource to help progress research into anxiety disorders, depression and psychosis, with a view to developing new treatments. Our vision is a global resource curated by and relevant to a global community.”
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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety
Society of Clinical Psychology
AUGUST 15, 2023
by Nicholas L Balderston Anxiety disorders are among the most diagnosed classes of mental disorders with 1 in 5 individuals meeting criteria for an anxiety disorder within a given year in the US (Kessler & Chiu, 2005). For these reasons and others, anxiety disorders cost the US economy billions of dollars per year (Vos et al.,
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Never Say These 3 Things to Someone With Anxiety
Social Work Haven
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Anxiety is one of the most common mental illness. According to Trevor (2017), anxiety is a normal healthy reaction. BUT, there are things you should never say to someone with anxiety. So, what is anxiety? Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry and apprehension about what’s to come. 3: Just get over it!
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High Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment 2023
Blurt It Out
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In today’s fast-paced and demanding world, many individuals experience anxiety. However, a specific type of anxiety often goes unnoticed: high-functioning anxiety. Furthermore, it will explore various treatment options for high-functioning anxiety. What Is High-Functioning Anxiety?
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New Peripartum Depression Study Shows Gap Between Screening and Outcomes
Relias
JANUARY 23, 2023
On Maternal Health Awareness Day , I would like to bring awareness to the publication of our peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine , “ Improving maternal mental health: Assessing the extent of screening and training about peripartum depression.” What is peripartum depression?
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Am I Depressed? Depression Symptoms, Causes, Therapy
Stop Abuse Campaign
MAY 26, 2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “depression is a common illness worldwide, with an estimated 3.8% If you struggle with depression, you are not alone, and rest assured that tremendous progress in understanding, diagnosing, and treating this crippling illness is ongoing. What is depression? There is help. .
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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work
Social Work Blog
JANUARY 18, 2023
One might wonder, why and how I shifted from community care-based healing work to becoming a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist. Clinical Social Worker Violeta A. This was community care that in the Field, we might call an “intervention” at the meso level. But for many of us, this was culture. Moral of the story?
Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis
Society of Clinical Psychology
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Anxiety sensitivity refers to fears of anxiety-related sensations (e.g., Although anxiety sensitivity was originally studied in relation to panic- and anxiety-related disorders, it subsequently has been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic measure of distress intolerance and a risk factor for important health behaviors (Otto et al.,
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A Framework to Test Emotion Regulation in the Lab and the Clinic
Society of Clinical Psychology
JULY 30, 2021
Most of the treatment research on emotion regulation quality has focused on cognitive therapy for depression where higher quality strategies generally predict decreases in depressive symptoms (e.g., 2018) reported more intense disgust, depressive symptoms, and borderline personality disorder features. Strunk et al.,
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Festive opening of the university outpatient clinic
Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction
OCTOBER 7, 2022
On 09.09.2022, the new outpatient clinic for psychotherapy and psychodiagnostics, headed by Prof. Prior to the tour of the new outpatient clinic premises, a scientific symposium was held at the Erwin Schrödinger Zentrum. There are four specialized clinics: Specialized Outpatient Clinic for Social Interactions.
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8 Ways To Overcome Overwhelmed From Anxiety 2023
Blurt It Out
AUGUST 30, 2023
In our fast-paced world, anxiety is a common struggle experienced by many. Whether work, finances, or personal relationships trigger your anxiety, it is very important to discover coping mechanisms that work for you. Below are eight strategies to help you conquer overwhelming anxiety and regain control of your life.
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Professor David Nutt: A New Approach To Treating Depression
MQ Mental Health
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In this episode of MQ Open Mind podcast, released on 31 October 2023, Professor David Nutt, head of the Psychedelics Research Centre at Imperial College London, joins Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig Perryman to discuss a new approach to treating depression. So it was that discovery that led us to do these further studies into depression.
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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?
Society of Clinical Psychology
MAY 6, 2024
The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., To address this thorny issue, the Society of Clinical Psychology assembled a task force charged with defining what psychological treatments are and are not.
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Behavioral Addictions: Treatment Strategies for Clinical Practice
University of Connecticut
MAY 16, 2023
Rather than assuming this type of clinical work requires a brand-new set of skills, clinicians need only to add to their previously established skill set to address behavioral addictions. There is a lot of shame around addiction in general and behavioral addictions specifically. Many clients may present with other issues (e.g.,
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Anxiety Treatments on Repetitive Negative Thinking
Society of Clinical Psychology
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
A client presents with problems of anxiety. Using current classification systems like the DSM, we may initially conclude that this presentation can best be described as generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). We know from clinical practice that this example is not unusual, in fact, it is extremely common!
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depression's causes
Clinical Philosophy
OCTOBER 19, 2020
What causes depression? But it occurs to me - on reading the newly minted BPS document " Understanding Depression: Why Adults Experience Depression and What Can Help " - that it really isn't. And the thing is, just asking 'what causes depression?' And so too, I suggest, is asking 'what causes depression?'
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depressive theories of depression?
Clinical Philosophy
MARCH 11, 2020
In a recent talk on the phenomenology of depressed mood the following thought occurred to me. But to first set the scene, the talk was on the difference between such phenomenological understandings of depression as stress a mis-attunement, and those which instead understand depression as a dis-attunement, between patient and world.
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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Remarkably, CFT has found application in treating various mental health difficulties, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But it doesn’t stop there; CFT has also ventured beyond clinical settings to promote mental well-being in the general public. 49) on depressive symptoms.
What does Distress Tolerance have to do with Depression? A Review
Society of Clinical Psychology
JUNE 23, 2020
2010) and is being increasingly recognized for its role in anxiety, obsessions, and other internalizing symptoms (e.g., Surprisingly, distress tolerance has received limited attention in the depression literature, despite negative affect being a hallmark symptom of depression. Cougle et al.,
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Stress Affects Different People Differently
MQ Mental Health
APRIL 29, 2024
Autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, depression and anxiety disorders are more common in women. Additionally, people with symptoms of ADHD experience more stress due to their symptoms which can then lead to clinical depression.
Still Moving: Eating Disorders And Movement For Mental Health
MQ Mental Health
MAY 8, 2024
According to Mayo Clinic regular exercise helps ease depression and anxiety symptoms by releasing endorphins and other natural chemicals that enhance a sense of well-being. This gave rise to increased anxiety and focus on a compulsion to measure myself I thought I’d unlearned.
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COVID-19 Inquiry: The Missing Mental Health Impact
MQ Mental Health
MAY 2, 2024
When the pandemic hit in 2020, through the NIHR Translational Collaborations, a group of academics from different clinical specialties came together to study the longer-term impact of being hospitalised with COVID-19 through the PHOSP-COVID project.
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents: Insights from a Meta-Analysis
Society of Clinical Psychology
JULY 17, 2023
We were thus able to identify 184 studies with 386 effect sizes to estimate the relationships between rumination, avoidance, suppression, acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, and problem-solving with symptoms of depression, anxiety, aggression, and addiction in children and adolescents in our meta-analysis. Target Article Kraft, L.,
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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Significant progress has been made in recent decades in identifying effective psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders. Another key issue is that many current CBT protocols were specifically designed to impact a specific mood or anxiety disorder. Brown et al., Brown et al.,
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Importance of Addressing Internalized Racism in Clinical Practice (SCP Diversity Committee)
Society of Clinical Psychology
AUGUST 28, 2020
Clinical psychology is one of the few specialties that can directly address internalized racism, but overt racism tends to be the focus in clinical practice. Fisher, PhD is an Assistant Professor and clinical psychologist at Northwestern University. Recently, Gale et al. About The Author. Download our Blog Submission Form !
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There
Society of Clinical Psychology
JULY 13, 2018
Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.
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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 4, 2018
This is a Section 10 Student Blog Post on identifying mechanisms of change in clinical supervision written by Lucas Zullo , a fourth year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and his clinical supervisor, Dr. Mona Robbins.
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AI Can Positively Impact Mental Health
University of Connecticut
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
(frequency and duration of calls, texts to others) Lack of resources Access to resources via internet or smartphone Close treatment gap in accessing high quality mental health care (evident during Pandemic and provided support to those experiencing isolation, depression, anxiety, etc.)
Celebrating support workers
Social Care
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
I looked online and found a health care support worker vacancy at Aspen Clinic in Mexborough. When I was growing up, a member of my family suffered very bad anxiety, depression and post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During my 15 years at Aspen Clinic, I’ve been offered so much training.
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Can running improve my mental health?
Lawson Psychology
MARCH 5, 2024
Running has been shown to improve mood, and reduce stress and anxiety symptoms both alone, and in combination with psychological treatments for mood disorders. Lawson Clinical Psychology celebrates the extraordinary diversity of people’s bodies, ability, genders, sexualities and relationships that they represent. All Rights Reserved.
The Relationship between Gender Affirming Medical Interventions and Social Anxiety Among Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
Society of Clinical Psychology
AUGUST 6, 2019
In our study, we examined how social anxiety relates to the utilization of GAMIs. Using a large, cross-sectional survey of TGNC individuals ( n = 715), we compared levels of social anxiety between those who had completed a given GAMI, planned on doing it, considered doing it, or had no interest in it. transmasculine or transfeminine).
Women Working In Mental Health Research
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 7, 2024
Women Working to Help Children and Young People In 2014 Professor Helen Fisher (UK) uncovered the key factors that lead to the development of psychotic symptoms in children, which led to improvements in clinical interventions for vulnerable young people. The team have also been brilliant [1] responsive and kind in all correspondence.”
Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial.
Society of Clinical Psychology
APRIL 30, 2017
Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial – an SCP blog piece by Drs. For others, life changes during pregnancy can become major challenges and 1 in 7 pregnant women become clinically depressed (Gavin et al., Hubley and Dimidjian.
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Movement Is Hope: Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
MQ Mental Health
MAY 13, 2024
Moving Differently When I’m in a depressive time, when clinical depression is changing the way I think, feel and behave, a part of the depressive cycle that I go through includes a period of time where I have to work hard at imagining small, incremental improvements.
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10 Years of MQ’s American Fellows
MQ Mental Health
APRIL 5, 2024
2015 The following year, 2015, another USA-based researcher Dr Ian Maze took a novel, multidisciplinary approach to understanding how serotonin impacts major depressive disorder which could lead to improved pharmacological treatments for depression. Prior to MQ’s support, work [in this area] was sparse and primitive.
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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?
Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 3, 2022
In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Anxiety, panic attacks, or shakiness. Sleep disturbances.
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A Lifeline for Primary Care Amid a Crisis in Youth Mental Health
Swhelper
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Instead, young people with depression, anxiety and more turn to the same people they already go to for all kinds of other health issues: their pediatricians, family doctors, school-based clinics and other primary […]. View Full Article - A Lifeline for Primary Care Amid a Crisis in Youth Mental Health.
Diabetes and Mental Health
MQ Mental Health
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Worldwide there are around 9 million individuals with type 1 diabetes, a more volatile condition, of which the cause is unknown. People with both types of diabetes are at a higher risk of developing depression and anxiety and are at a higher risk of early mortality due to the combination of mental health and physical health comorbidities.
What is Schema Therapy? An overview and what to expect
Lawson Psychology
APRIL 4, 2024
Numerous studies have demonstrated its efficacy in treating challenges such as chronic depression, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, trauma, and substance-use issues. Copyright © 2024 Lawson Clinical Psychology. An overview and what to expect appeared first on Lawson Clinical Psychology.
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Members in the News – August 29, 2023
Social Workers Speak
AUGUST 29, 2023
Amy Salgado , a California-based licensed clinical social worker , said that in addition to the emotional challenges, Latino queer youth encounter practical obstacles too. Granet , licensed clinical social worker at The OCD-BDD Clinic of Northern California wonders.
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